The Dato' SHANmughalingam Page

Dato' Dr M SHANmughalingam was hyperactive in the debating,
literary and drama fields and played football and table tennis in the V.I. First
in Malaysia in the national pre University Sixth Form Entrance Exam with a 96%
score, he was the secretary and later joint editor of the Seladang, steering the
V.I. newspaper through one of its most vibrant periods. He was in the first group
of Victorians in 1958 to be awarded the coveted "Club 21" badge for meritorious
service to the school. He was the lead speaker of the very successful school
debating team as well as the leader of the school quiz team from 1955 while
in Form IV and chairman of the Senior Literary and Debating Society.

Shan holds an Honours degree from the University of Malaya,
a Masters from Harvard and a Doctorate from Oxford University. At Harvard he graduated
First in class with Grade A in all eight subjects with "the best grade average for
several years past" (Prof. John Montgomery). He was admitted to the Ph.D. programme
directly without formal application. At Oxford he won the Gertrude Hartley Memorial
prize for Poetry, a graduate scholarship from Balliol College and the second prize
in the Short Story competition judged by famous novelist, Iris Murdoch and John Bayley,
Prof. of Literature, sponsored by ISIS, Oxford University and The Observer. He was
sole representative of the Third World in meetings with the President of Harvard
University. On invitation by Harvard University he helped in the design of a new
Executive Programme for Leaders in Development: Managing Economic and Political
Reform developed jointly by Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Institute for
International Development, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass, USA.